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27 April 2024

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Detection of thermal neutrons with the PRISMA-YBJ array in Extensive Air Showers selected by the ARGO-YBJ experiment
B. Bartoli ; P. Bernardini ; X.J. Bi ; Z. Cao ; S. Catalanotti ; S.Z. Chen ; T.L. Chen ; S.W. Cui ; B.Z. Dai ; A. D'Amone ; Danzengluobu ; I. De Mitri ; B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli ; T. Di Girolamo ; G. Di Sciascio ; C.F. Feng ; Zhaoyang Feng ; Zhenyong Feng ; Q.B. Gou ; Y.Q. Guo ; H.H. He ; Haibing Hu ; Hongbo Hu ; M. Iacovacci ; R. Iuppa ; H.Y. Jia ; Labaciren ; H.J. Li ; C. Liu ; J. Liu ; M.Y. Liu ; H. Lu ; L.L. Ma ; X.H. Ma ; G. Mancarella ; S.M. Mari ; G. Marsella ; S. Mastroianni ; P. Montini ; C.C. Ning ; L. Perrone ; P. Pistilli ; P. Salvini ; R. Santonico ; P.R. Shen ; X.D. Sheng ; F. Shi ; A. Surdo ; Y.H. Tan ; P. Vallania ; S. Vernetto ; C. Vigorito ; H. Wang ; C.Y. Wu ; H.R. Wu ; L. Xue ; Q.Y. Yang ; X.C. Yang ; Z.G. Yao ; A.F. Yuan ; M. Zha ; H.M. Zhang ; L. Zhang ; X.Y. Zhang ; Y. Zhang ; J. Zhao ; Zhaxiciren ; Zhaxisangzhu ; X.X. Zhou ; F.R. Zhu ; Q.Q. Zhu ; . Yu.V. Stenkin ; V.V. Alekseenko ; V. Aynutdinov ; Z.Y. Cai ; X.W. Guo ; Y. Liu ; V. Rulev ; O.B. Shchegolev ; V. Stepanov ; V. Volchenko ; H. Zhang ;
Date:	4 Dec 2015
Abstract:	We report on a measurement of thermal neutrons, generated by the hadronic component of extensive air showers (EAS), by means of a small array of EN-detectors developed for the PRISMA project (PRImary Spectrum Measurement Array), novel devices based on a compound alloy of ZnS(Ag) and 6LiF. This array has been operated within the ARGO-YBJ experiment at the high altitude Cosmic Ray Observatory in Yangbajing (Tibet, 4300 m a.s.l.). Due to the tight correlation between the air shower hadrons and thermal neutrons, this technique can be envisaged as a simple way to get information on the EAS hadronic component, avoiding the use of huge calorimeters. Coincident events generated by primary cosmic rays of energies greater than 100 TeV have been selected and analyzed. The EN-detectors have been used to record simultaneously thermal neutrons and the air shower electromagnetic component. The density distribution of both components and the total number of thermal neutrons have been measured. The correlation of these data with the measurements carried out by ARGO-YBJ confirms the excellent performance of the EN-detector, opening a new opportunity to detect the air shower hadronic component on a large scale.
Source:	arXiv, 1512.1326
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